Tanaka Farms expands from Irvine to Costa Mesa, planting roots with Hana Field
Sunflowers in the “gold rush” variety are picked by a guest on the Sakioka family fields in Costa Mesa. The fields are being leased by Tanaka Farms to grow flowers for the public to view and pick on the weekends.
(Don Leach / Staff Photographer)
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Just as young sunflowers follow the sun, visitors craned their heads skyward to greet some of blooms towering over them.
People cradled white, plastic vases with bunches of sunflowers some yellow, some red and zinnias, their small pruning shears at hand in case they might spy another flower to take home.
An Appetite for Life, Amore for All Things Dodger Blue
Former manager and lifelong global Dodgers icon Tommy Lasorda dies at age 93.
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Tommy Lasorda was named parade marshal for the 2011 Nisei Week Grand Parade, and was joined at the announcement by (from left) Nisei Week Foundation President Rev. Mark Nakagawa and Princesses Brynn Nakamoto, Kelli Teragawa and Christy Sakamoto. Lasorda died Thursday of heart failure. (JUN NAGATA / Rafu Shimpo)
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In his adult life, Tommy Lasorda had exactly one kind of job: he worked for a baseball team.
After signing his first minor league contract as a teenager, his life took him on a path from moderately talent pitcher to one of the most recognizeable personalities in all of sports.